ZIP 19966 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 19966 in Sussex County, Delaware carries a composite property-distress score of 26/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). Structurally it carries 60/100, against 4/100 of stress already in motion. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (68/100), structural risk (60/100), institutional ownership (17/100). institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) stay muted.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 14% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

At $75,436, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Owners hold 82% of homes, renters 18%. About 34,892 people live here, median age 53. Around 32% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. Roughly 12.0% live below the poverty line. The vacancy rate is 22.9% — elevated. The ZIP holds roughly 19,893 housing units. The typical home is worth about $317,500 (3.7× income, relatively affordable).

On the whole, 19966 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 19966 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 19966 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 26/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Sussex County, Delaware and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 19966 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

19966's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 19966 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.